The National Gallery stands on the former site of the King’s Mews. In 1826 nearby Carlton House, former home of the Prince Regent was demolished but its impressive columns were saved. Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900. The Gallery is an exempt charity, and a ..
Category : Historical Places
Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, known commonly as the Egyptian Museum or Museum of Cairo, in Cairo, Egypt, is home to an extensive collection of ancient Egyptian antiquities. The Egyptian government established the museum, built in 1835 near the Ezbekeyah Garden and later to the Cairo Citadel. A new museum was established at Boulaq in ..
Jewish Museum Berlin is one of the largest Jewish Museums in Europe. In three buildings, two of which are new additions specifically built for the museum by architect Daniel Libeskind, two millennia of German-Jewish history are on display in the permanent exhibition as well as in various changing exhibitions. In 1988, the Berlin government ..
Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine lived here with the eldest three of their ten children, with the older two of Dickens’ daughters, Mary Dickens and Kate Macready Dickens being born in the house. The building at 48 Doughty Street was threatened with demolition in 1923, but was saved by the Dickens Fellowship, founded ..
Acropolis Museum is an archaeological museum focused on the findings of the archaeological site of the Acropolis of Athens. The museum was built to house every artifact found on the rock and on its feet, from the Greek Bronze Age to Roman and Byzantine Greece. The museum was founded in 2003, while the Organization ..
Aogashima is a volcanic Japanese island in the Philippine Sea. The island is surrounded by very steep rugged cliffs of layered volcanic deposits. The southern coast also rises to a sharp ridge forming one edge of a caldera named Ikenosawa with a diameter of 1.5 km. The island is mentioned in Edo period records kept ..
Saint Lucia was first inhabited sometime between 1000 and 500 BC by the Ciboney people, but there is a lot of evidence of their presence on the island. There is evidence to suggest that these first inhabitants called the island Iouanalao, which meant ‘Land of the Iguanas’, due to the island’s high number of iguanas. ..
Pamukkale is located to the south central of the Aegean region of Turkey. The ancient Greco-Roman and Byzantine city of Hierapolis was built on top of the white “castle” which is in total about 2,700 metres (8,860 ft) long, 600 m (1,970 ft) wide and 160 m (525 ft) high. As recently as the mid-20th century, hotels were built ..
Marble Caves is a cave in Crimea, located at the lower plateau of Chatyr-Dag, mountainous massif. In 1988, center of speleology tourism Onyx-tour established sightseeing tours, concrete paths were laid, and cave was as well equipped with lighting. Tour goes through Fairy Tales gallery, Tiger Path with hundreds of various stalactites, Reconstruction Room, that ..
Crystal Cave is the most famous of Bermuda’s many subterranean caverns. It is located in Hamilton Parish, close to Castle Harbour. In 1942, Crystal Cave was opened to the public. The entrance to the cave had a full service restaurant that could hold 200 people at one time and on the weekends it served over ..